Because we haven’t been punished enough this week it is time for Ted O’Brien, best described as if bumptious was made a person, to ask a question:

Can the Treasurer explain to the House why electricity prices have jumped an extraordinary 13% over the past 12 I give the call to the months?

Jim Chalmers:

Mr Speaker, I want to be really clear and say that the last person on earth that I’ll be lectured about energy prices is the member for Fairfax. The very last person on earth that I’d be lectured on energy prices is the member for Fairfax. The last people who took the member for Fairfax seriously on energy prices used to sit over there and now they watch Question Time from home.

And that was the madness of the nuclear meltdown that the member for Fairfax was responsible for and the pure madness of it was he wanted to waste hundreds of billions of dollars building nuclear reactors that would push energy prices up, not down, Mr Speaker. And we saved the Australian people from his madness.